SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TESTING DEVICES

• US 20090217292A1
• Filed: 05/05/2009
• Published: 08/27/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 03/23/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: S2 Technologies, Inc.
• Original Assignee: S2 Technologies, Inc.
• Inventors: Underseth, Mark, Murphy, Dan
• Application Number:
  US12/435,998
• Publication Number:
  US 20090217292A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 719/313
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3466 Performance evaluation by tracing or monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3636 by tracing the execution of the program
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3668 Software testing software testing in telephone exchanges H04M3/242, testing of hardware G06F11/22
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/865 Monitoring of software
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/542 Intercept
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/30 Creation or generation of source code
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/541 via adapters, e.g. between incompatible applications
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/546 Message passing systems or structures, e.g. queues

Abstract

A system and method for providing seamless communication with threads executing on an embedded computer. Using a DAT system, a programmer can test the communication interfaces of a thread via either a scripting program, any COM-compliant program, or a graphical test utility. The DAT system automatically formats a block of data that is transmitted between the embedded computer and a host computer and accounts for machine specific enumeration sizes, machine specific pointer sizes, machine specific structure alignment boundaries, machine specific integer sizes, and machine specific byte ordering.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

transmitting a request from a host device to a target device to intercept a call from an invoking routine to an invoked routine;

intercepting the call;

collecting at least one parameter that is provided as part of the call to the invoked routine;

transmitting the parameter from the target device to the host device; and

modifying the parameter based upon a characteristic of the host device and the target device.